No Compromise with the IWW,
by Ernest Untermann
Published in St. Louis Labor, whole no. 624 (Jan. 18, 1913), pg. 7.

Continuation of the line of opposition to the IWW put forward at the 1910 National Congress of the Socialist Party by Marx-translator Ernest Untermann. Untermann rejects any manifestations of a "false conception of solidarity" between the ballot-oriented Socialists and the anti-political IWW, noting "impossible to avoid the expulsion of individuals who through word and deed confess that they are not in harmony with the fundamental principles of the organization."
While accepting both the historical necessity and desirability of industrial unionism, Untermann claims that following the defection of the Western Federation of Miners from the IWW to the AF of L it is now the American Federation of Labor which offers the best opportunity for advancement of these ideas. Untermann depicts the IWW as ungrateful disruptionists of anarchistic sentiments, who on the one hand have sought and collected money from Socialists for their legal defense while at the same time attempting to disrupt and dissolve the Socialist political movement.
"If direct action is a good principle for the IWW in its dealings with the Socialist Party, give the disrupters a taste of that same principle," Untermann advises, adding, "It worked wonders in the old SLP ad ST&LA. It will work well against the IWW disrupters."

Edited by Tim Davenport for 1000 Flowers Publishing, Corvallis, OR. Published December 2014.
Uploaded Dec. 10, 2014 to Archive.org by Tim Davenport ("Carrite").
Text public domain, published in the USA before 1923. Edited version released for non-commercial use under Creative Commons license.

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